[Bordeaux-threads-devel] Allegro 9.0 SMP fixes

[James M. Lawrence]

Condition variables were added to the Allegro documentation the day
after I sent the last patch, which I assume is sheer coincidence. The
attached patch using condition variables is better. This is for both
Allegro 8.2 and 9.0.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:45 PM, James M. Lawrence <llmjjmll at gmail.com> wrote:
> The first patch is a stress test which will hang without the
> subsequent patch.
>
> This patch covers all Allegro versions. The code was incorrect all
> along, but symptoms only appeared with real SMP.
>
> Thanks to Franz support for recommending the solution.
>
> The stress test may also fail intermittently for unrelated reasons.
> Franz is aware of this problem (which stems from the weak-keys hash in
> impl-allegro.lisp).
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